Bullying - A gentle activity to get the discussion started.

I recently hosted a management development programme where one of our topics was bullying.

This can be quite an emotive subject so I wanted an activity that allowed them to build up to a discussion rather than leap straight in.

I've had these mini Jenga games in my training cupboard for a while, and thought I could use them to create the insight I wanted.

It worked great, so thought I'd share it.

⏹️ Each team had their own mini Jenga tower and colour coordinated dice.

⏹️ They took it in turns to state something (relatively small) that someone might say or do that could make someone feel upset or knock their confidence.

⏹️ Then they rolled the die and pulled the corresponding colour brick from the tower.

⏹️ They counted how many bricks they took before the tower fell.

As you can imagine, some towers fell more quickly than others, some remained standing long after they looked like they should have fallen. Some teams had the die fall on the same colour more frequently which created an unsteady foundation.

This opened up such a great discussion which included how different people react to different things, how bullying doesn't have to relate to just one person, and about how no one knows how many bricks have already been pulled from any one person etc.

I'd love to hear other people's activities that tackle tricky topics.

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